macrumors newbie

Long time reader at MacRumors, first time posting.
Here's the rundown of the issue I'm having:

About a week ago, I switched from DSL to a Cable Modem (10x faster, 50% cheaper... hurray, right?) and two days later my computer stopped connecting to the internet, or so I thought. It seemed I was unable to connect to google, or anything google-related, i.e. picasa, youtube, google reader, gmail.
My website uses google HTML snippets, which do not load (http://raisedby.tv)

macrumors Westmere

This message displays when Google Chrome is unable to find and load the requested webpage.

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Check your web address and Internet connection

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macrumors 65816

have you checked that your firewall is not blocking google for some unknown reason?

Have you installed any new software since your switch (particularly anti-virus, or "cracked" software)? If so, then uninstall, and immediately run a virus and malware scan and clean. then uninstall the anti-virus software and try again.

You said all computers on the network can get to google fine. Are they all running through the Airport and the router, or just the mac?

macrumors newbie

I'm having the same problem. No solutions for macs are out there. Did anyone ever get an answer to this? It's killing me not being able to use google. Tried every browser. It has to be in the network settings.

macrumors regular

May be a long shot, but have you tried switching the DNS servers to Google-- 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4? I have Time Warner, and sometimes TW's DNS stuff just gets inexplicably shot to heck. When I go into the router settings and change from the TW's DNS servers to Google's, joy returns. Worth a shot.

macrumors newbie

Same problem here. Macbook with OS X 10.6.6. No change in setup or software, came home from work yesterday afternoon and now google (all sites), youtube, yahoo, and many others get ERROR_102. Same in all browsers. Others connected to the same wifi router can still connect as normal. Whats going on? Apple? Google?

macrumors newbie

I have been a reader of the forums, however I decided to join MacRumors because of this issue. Recently, my browsers became unable to view any google affiliated websites. Google chrome rendered Error 102 like all of you have written. I have fixed my problem last night and wanted to share my solution.

I am an Ableton Live user and Max/MSP programmer. I demand a lot out of my computers memory and usage. Pretty much each week, I optimize my computer, erase my cache, and maintain my computer for efficient live performances.

The software I use to perform this is Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner. My problem developed after I had interrupted a optimization of my computer.
I didn't put two and two together, shortly after this, I could not view google affiliated websites.

I read this forum, I disabled PeerGuardian, deleted my cache like the poster above suggested, then I repaired my permissions, optimized my memory, and cleaned my cache. When, I started my computer this morning, boom, I was back into my gmail and left to read hundreds of emails I was restricted from for the weekend. I haven't enable PG yet, I will post later if PG is an issue. I hope this helps and I hope google becomes more aware of this problem because I seems to be sourced around Chrome and is both Mac and PC related

macrumors newbie

This fixed all of my problems - deleted corrupt PeerGuardian and all is well again.
Thanks,!!
James

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I know this is an old thread, but I recently went through this same problem recently. I can confirm that removing all evidence of Peer Guardian version v.180b2 and it agents will help. Not until I cleared all cache in the libraries, did it truly restore ALL of my connectivity. You will need to make your User library visible if it is hidden. It was key to clear that User Library cache.

Make Library unhidden:
* From the OS X Finder, open a new window and go to the users Home folder (hit Command+Shift+H to jump to Home instantly)
* Pull down the “View” menu and select “Show View Options” (or hit Command+J if you like keyboard shortcuts)
* Check the box for “Show Library Folder” then close the View Options panel
* Navigate in the users home folder to see the newly visible “Library” directory

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